asterisk users - Dec 2003 - Beginner couple of questions

Dear all,

I have some questions, I'm sure it's pretty stupid for most of you, but
I need
you guys to help me. Here are my questions:
1. Music On Hold, it doesn't play any sound on the parked call or hold call.
But if I do ps-ax, it shows mpg123 .....( I forgot the exact line). I'm
using
slackware 9.1
2. I have fxs 3 port, and in my zapata.conf I have included callpickup=1-4, 
but I can't pick up the call.
3. Supposed I have 2 fxo cards (right now I have one already) and 3 fxs, and 
one of the fxo will have two phone (running pararell), is there any way for * 
to:
a. It always dial the first fxo, if the fxo is busy or is being used (have 
other people conversation), will * be able to switch it to other fxo?
Here's the approximiate the conditions of the phone.
Line PSTN -- FXO 
|--------------- phone

Line PSTN --FXO

Please pardon my English, and thanks for your help

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isianto Istiadi" <isianto.istiadi@adirarental.com>
To: <Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:15 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Beginner couple of questions
> 1. Music On Hold, it doesn't play any sound on the parked call or hold
call.
> But if I do ps-ax, it shows mpg123 .....( I forgot the exact line). I'm
using
> slackware 9.1
Slackware doesn't have mpg123 installed out of the box.  It's actually a
symlink to mpg321.  Delete the symlink and install mpg123.

I recommend swaret for Slackers.

http://www.swaret.org/?menu=downloads

follow the instructions for installation and then

swaret --update && swaret --install mpg123

Your MOH will work fine after this.  The MOH is actually playing with mpg123
symlinked to mpg321, but it's so slow that you can't tell it's
playing.

look at the wiki

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+mpg123+redhat

You can download the rpm and use rpm2tgz on it, then use installpkg
package.tgz.. I would recommend you either compile from src or use swaret
though.

Christian

On Monday 15 December 2003 20:15, Isianto Istiadi wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have some questions, I'm sure it's pretty stupid for most of you,
> but I need you guys to help me. Here are my questions:
> 1. Music On Hold, it doesn't play any sound on the parked call or
> hold call. But if I do ps-ax, it shows mpg123 .....( I forgot the
> exact line). I'm using slackware 9.1
Please run the following command:

echo | strings `which mpg123` | grep -c mpg123

If the output is 0, you've got mpg321 installed, symlinked to mpg123,
which will not work.  Deinstall mpg321 and install mpg123.
> 2. I have fxs 3 port, and in my zapata.conf I have included
> callpickup=1-4, but I can't pick up the call.
Use the right keywords:  callgroup and pickupgroup.
> 3. Supposed I have 2 fxo cards (right now I have one already) and 3
> fxs, and one of the fxo will have two phone (running pararell), is
> there any way for * to:
> a. It always dial the first fxo, if the fxo is busy or is being used
> (have other people conversation), will * be able to switch it to
> other fxo? Here's the approximiate the conditions of the phone.
Yes, define both FXO ports in the same group (e.g. 0) then dial numbers
using the group, (e.g. Dial(Zap/g0/2345678)).

-Tilghman